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“What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs? [Lat., Quid enim est melius quam memoria recte factorum, et libertate contentum negligere humana?]”
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“The fathers, if they got me alone, would try to kiss and fondle me. I hated it.”
Source : Christine Keeler, Douglas Thompson (2012). “Secrets and Lies: Now Profumo is Dead, I Can Finally Reveal the Truth About the Most Shocking Scandal in British Politic”, p.35, John Blake Publishing
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“I am not a saint. I am, however, beginning to learn that I am a small character in a story that is always fundamentally about God.”
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“Intelligence rules the world, ignorance carries the burden...”
Source : Marcus Garvey (1988). “Marcus Garvey Life and Lessons: A Centennial Companion to the Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers”, p.189, Univ of California Press
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“I think it creates so many more opportunities and pitfalls in that you are treading on fresh snow, so you're in a new place.”
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“Instead of seeing all of this as God's extraordinary grace, we come to expect the comfort and joys that God gives us as the baseline, the measure of what we believe to be our due. When our comfort level drops below our expectations, we are shocked and angered, and even foolishly express our outrage to God Himself.”
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“She took my hand and pulled me after her, her shoulders giving off a sweet peppermint concoction that the bodies of young women sometimes produce to make my life more difficult.”
Source : Gary Shteyngart (2006). “Absurdistan: A Novel”, p.212, Random House
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“Man alone, during his brief existence on this earth, is free to examine, to know, to criticize, and to create. In this freedom lies his superiority over the forces that pervade his outward life. He is that unique organism in terms of matter and energy, space and time, which is urged to conscious purpose. Reason is his characteristic and indistinguishing principle. But man is only man -- and free -- when he considers himself as a total being in whom the unmediated whole of feeling and thought is not severed and who impugns any form of atomization as artificial, mischievous, and predatory.”
Source : Ruth Nanda Anshen (1971). “Language: An Enquiry Into Its Meaning and Function”, Associated Faculty PressInc